Andreata Muforo

February 16, 2020

Speaker

Andreata Muforo

Partner at TLcom Capital LLP

Session: Financing Africa's Innovation Ecosystems: New Models, New Instruments

March 11, 2020

09:30 – 10:30

Andreata is a Partner at TLcom Capital LLP. TLcom is a venture capital firm based in Nairobi, Lagos and London, and has been investing since 1999 in innovative entrepreneurs leveraging technology to find market solutions to significant challenges. Andreata leads VC investments in early to growth stage tech-enabled businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa, from origination, investment and management through to exit. She is also a mentor for the Endeavor network and is engaged in local partnerships with entrepreneurs, accelerators and incubators for mentoring and deal flow generation. She sits on the boards of Ajua and Twiga Foods.

Prior to joining TLcom, Andreata was a Transaction Manager at Horizon Africa Capital Ltd, an M&A firm in Nairobi, Kenya. While at Horizon, she structured and advised on merger and acquisitions, and capital raising transactions in the greater East African region. Andreata also worked as an Investment Officer in the private sector department of the African Development Bank (AfDB) in Tunisia where she participated in the structuring of project finance transactions and evaluated the AfDB’s investments into private equity funds.

Andreata holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in Economics from Grinnell College in Iowa, USA.